The population of Wales has risen by 0.5% and now stands at 3,113,200 people, as the UK population sees its largest increase in 70 years.

The Office of National Statistics ' latest calculations show there were 14,100 more people living in Wales at the end of June 2016, a rise of 0.5% on a year earlier

The total population of the UK is now estimated 65,648,000 - up 0.8%.

Nearly all the growth is in the oldest age groups, aged over 65.

In parts of Wales and Scotland, the number of young people has even fallen.

This is the largest increase, in number terms, in the UK population since the year to mid-1947 when it went up by 551,000.

The population of Wales' biggest urban areas is now:

Cardiff: 361,468

Swansea: 244,513

Newport: 149,148

Wrexham: 136,710

How Wales' population breaks down by gender

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On current trends, the ONS now predicts that the UK population will hit 70 million at some point between 2025 and 2030.

However, that is largely based on net international migration remaining the main driver behind the growth - and that may be affected by Brexit.

In demographic terms, the age profile of the UK population has changed significantly in the last 40 years.

In 1975 the population looked like this

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Today, the population looks like this

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The figures mean the number of inhabitants in the UK grew by around the equivalent of the population of Bradford in a year.

Natural change – the number of births minus the number of deaths – of 193,000 accounted for just over a third (35.8%) of the overall increase.

Nearly two-thirds (62.4%) was down to net international migration of 336,000.

The population of England grew the fastest, and has now exceeded 55 million for the first time.

How the UK population is made up

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London is growing faster than anywhere else in the UK.

Of the 14 authorities showing population increases of 2% or above, 8 of these were in London.

Five of these local authorities are in Inner London – Westminster, Camden, City of London, Islington and Haringey; the other three a block in East London – Tower Hamlets, Newham, and Barking and Dagenham.

Head of the Population Estimates Unit at the ONS Neil Park said: “Population growth was not evenly distributed however, with London’s growth rate more than twice that in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the three northern English regions.”

In the 11 years between mid-2005 and mid-2016, the population of the UK increased by just over five million people.

The previous increase of five million took 35 years, between 1970 and 2005, while the five million before that were added over a 17-year period.

The vast majority of local authorities, 364, saw rises in their total population. Of 26 which showed falls in the number of residents, 17 were in coastal areas.